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I never thought I’d see an Alabama offense get carried by a QB, but that is what happened this season. The WRs struggled to separate, the offensive line is leaky. Bryce Young was forced to create, and he showed off a special ability to do so. Young has special pocket movement and toughness. He’s not afraid to hang in the pocket and take the big hit, and when he’s extending plays, he keeps his eyes downfield.

☆☆☆☆ Each episode of the Disney+ docu-series "BTS Monuments: Beyond the Star" ends with the same message: "Special thanks to our biggest voice, ARMY." That this series was meant to provide solace for the fandom after RM, Jimin, V and Jungkook enlisted for South Korea's mandatory military duty — joining Jin, j-hope and Suga, who were already serving — is obvious. But as with just about everything this supergroup septet does, this documentary offers new elements that may surprise even the most ardent fans, while providing optimal comfort.

BTS leader RM often describes the seven-member megagroup using the metaphor of a boat: “The seven of us are on a boat, looking in different directions but going the same way,” he explained in the Break the Silence docuseries. He has returned to this analogy when emphasising the different tastes and ambitions of each of the members.  While they were focused primarily on group activities, this notion felt somewhat intangible — the seven members, after all, were presenting a united front with group releases that worked towards what seemed to be their collective goals.

My aunt from Toronto, whom I haven’t seen since I was fifteen, is back in China for the week. I’ve been helping her clear out my uncle’s old family apartment in Hongqiao. The last time I saw my aunt, I was still in high school in Pittsburgh. She used to live with us in Detroit when she was in nursing school. As my mom’s younger sister, she was indulgent and warm where my mom was strong and unyielding, and when I escaped to her room, seething because of some injustice, she would laugh and calmly iron her scrubs.

During decades in the restaurant business, including cooking at Oliver’s and rolling sushi at SeaBar, Jeffrey Dalfonso had a lot of time to think about the sort of place he wanted for himself. The result is Dalfonso’s Italian Imports. Last month, the sandwich and premium Italian ingredient shop joined a neighborhood growing into a destination for the hungry and thirsty of Buffalo, to Five Points Bakery, Butter Block, Remedy House, Paradise Wines, and Extra Extra Pizza.

When debating issues like the logic (or lack thereof) of transgenderism or the blatant immorality in the exploitation of children by drag queens, one of the arguments that inevitably surfaces points out the long-accepted existence of gender-fluidity and cross-dressing in our popular culture. There are many examples that tend to surface, such as Robin Williams in Mrs. Doubtfire or John Travolta in Hairspray. But one example that seems to always find its way into the conversation is the beloved animated series, Looney Tunes, with its iconic character of Bugs Bunny.

Portions of this post come from a previous post published on February 13, 2022 on Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. ____________________________________________________________ “True music must repeat the thoughts and inspirations of the people and the time. My people are Americans and my time is today.” -George Gershwin Welcome back to Building a Collection where we are making our way through the top 250 classical works of all-time.  We have arrived at #14 on the list, and the first American composer to appear.

What drew my intial interest to Mad Men was the respect that the show paid to history. I knew that the creative team looked up weather records down to the hour to ensure that they were capturing the 1960s exactly. It wasn’t just about playing the right songs and giving the actresses big hair, there was a duty here to ensuring that what you saw onscreen was the 1960s and not a fantasy vision of the past.

Parents often worry about lumps and bumps on a baby's head unnecessarily. Babies normally have ridges and soft spots on their head for a while after birth. Many have a type of swollen gland that parents can feel when rubbing the head. All of this is normal. Let's begin with a brief overview of a baby's head. We are born with many bones in our skull. This allows the head to be squeezed out of the birth canal as the bony plates move together or even overlap one another.